Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Levels in Healthy Adults

Fibrinogen as a Risk Factor for Stroke and Myocardial Infarction

1984 • 1,686 citations

The Effects of Treatment with Recombinant Human Growth Hormone on Body Composition and Metabolism in Adults with Growth Hormone Deficiency

1989 • 1,411 citations

Liver-derived insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) is the principal source of IGF-I in blood but is not required for postnatal body growth in mice

1999 • 938 citations

Treatment of adults with growth hormone (GH) deficiency with recombinant human GH.

1993 • 845 citations

Long-term treatment of acromegaly with pegvisomant, a growth hormone receptor antagonist

2001 • 637 citations

Lipoprotein (a) and coronary heart disease: a prospective case-control study in a general population sample of middle aged men.

1990 • 557 citations

Radioimmunoassay for insulin-like growth factor-I: solutions to some potential problems and pitfalls

1991 • 428 citations

Serum Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Reference Values for an Automated Chemiluminescence Immunoassay System: Results from a Multicenter Study

2003 • 360 citations

Guidelines for Acromegaly Management

2002 • 354 citations

Serum insulin‐like growth factor I in a random population sample of men and women: relation to age, sex, smoking habits, coffee consumption and physical activity, blood pressure and concentrations of plasma lipids, fibrinogen, parathyroid hormone and osteocalcin

1994 • 343 citations

Comparison of acid ethanol extraction and acid gel filtration prior to IGF-I and IGF-II radioimmunoassays: Improvement of determinations in acid ethanol extracts by the use of truncated IGF-I as radioligand

1991 • 315 citations

6 Factors controlling blood concentration of somatomedin C

1984 • 299 citations

Growth hormone treatment of growth hormone-deficient adults results in a marked increase in Lp(a) and HDL cholesterol concentrations.

1993 • 215 citations

Serum Levels of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I in 152 Patients with Growth Hormone Deficiency, Aged 19–82 Years, in Relation to Those in Healthy Subjects1

1999 • 186 citations

Low plasma levels of insulin‐like growth factor 1 (IGF‐1) in male patients with idiopathic osteoporosis

1992 • 175 citations

Risk factors for cardiovascular disease during the period 1985–1995 in Göteborg, Sweden. The GOT‐MONICA Project

1997 • 141 citations

Insulin‐like growth factor‐I in growth hormone‐deficient adults: relationship to population‐based normal values, body composition and insulin tolerance test

1997 • 137 citations

Altered relation between circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 and insulin in growth hormone-deficient patients and insulin-dependent diabetic patients compared to that in healthy subjects.

1995 • 121 citations

Cardiac Malformations and Hypertension, But Not Metabolic Risk Factors, Are Common in Turner Syndrome

2001 • 108 citations

Growth Hormone Increases Bone Mineral Content in Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial

2003 • 94 citations

Role of Insulin‐like Growth Factor Binding Proteins in Modifying IGF Actions^a

1993 • 83 citations

Valid measurements of total IGF concentrations in biological fluids. Recommendations from the 3rd International Symposium on Insulin-like Growth Factors

1994 • 71 citations

How Much Insulin-Like Growth Factor I (IGF-I) Circulates? Impact of Standardization on IGF-I Assay Accuracy

1998 • 69 citations

Twenty-four hour profile of blood pressure in patients with acromegaly. Correlation with demographic, clinical and hormonal features

1999 • 67 citations

Diagnostic reliability of a single IGF‐I measurement in 237 adults with total anterior hypopituitarism and severe GH deficiency

2003 • 66 citations

Determinants of circulating insulin-like growth factor-I.

1999 • 66 citations

Commercial Assays Available for Insulin-Like Growth Factor I and Their Use in Diagnosing Growth Hormone Deficiency

2001 • 66 citations

Diagnostic efficiency of serum IGF-I, IGF-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3), IGF-I/IGFBP-3 molar ratio and urinary GH measurements in the diagnosis of adult GH deficiency: importance of an appropriate reference population

2000 • 52 citations

Association between fibrinogen and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease in men and women results from the Göteborg MONICA Survey 1985

1994 • 51 citations

Normal Values of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I and Their Clinical Utility in Adults

2001 • 51 citations

Elevated fibrinogen levels decrease following treatment of acromegaly

1997 • 44 citations

Postmenopausal osteoporosis is more related to hormonal aberrations than to lifestyle factors

1999 • 39 citations

Reference Levels of Insulin-Like Growth Factor I in the Serum of Healthy Adults: Comparison of Four Immunoassays

2003 • 34 citations

Insulin-like growth factor binding proteins: a review of methodological aspects of their purification, analysis and regulation.

1994 • 18 citations

Involvement of G proteins in the effect of insulin-like growth factor I on gonadotropin-induced rat granulosa cell differentiation.

1994 • 17 citations

Growth hormone treatment in adults: psychological well-being and cognitive functioning

1997 • 13 citations

A comparative analysis of methods to measure insulin-like growth factor-i in human serum

1997 • 5 citations